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" The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally. "

Sidney Poitier

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Sidney Poitier

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Never

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" If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. "

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" In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man. "

Sidney Poitier

Body

Man

" Jackie Robinson is a true legend. "

" In America, it is difficult to be your own man. "

" I'm going to quit writing. "

" To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. "

" I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me. "

Sidney Poitier

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Take

" I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her. "

Sidney Poitier

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